"Pete C." > wrote in message
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> Gregory Morrow wrote:
>>
>> Pete C. wrote:
>>
>> > cybercat wrote:
>> >
>> > > As with every area,
>> > > education level and economic status has a lot to do with behavior and
>> > > attitudes.
>> >
>> > Absolutely, but PC or not, there are areas that are predominantly in
>> > the
>> > south, but not exclusively, where there is effectively a regressive sub
>> > species of human developing due to the lack of branches in the family
>> > trees. This is biological fact, not any sort of prejudice.
>>
>> It's not the South, it's poorer US rural areas in general, from Maine
>> to California, from Washington state to Florida.
>>
>> I grew up in west central Illannoy, when I read the area noozepapers
>> online I see the very same family names committing the same trashy
>> stuff they were doing 40 years ago. LOTS of meth busts, whole
>> extended families making meth in fact. On the state sex offender
>> registry site I see their mugs and go, "Ah, I went to school with that
>> guy's parents, they were pervs too...". Loads of DUI's, domestic
>> abuse, etc...
>
> That is a function of the education and economic status for the most
> part. Bad behaving parents produce bad behaving children who produce
> more bad behaving children. I was addressing the human sub species
> issue, not all bad behavior and ignorance.
>
>>
>> But socio - politically speaking, there do seem to be some
>> "backwaters", e.g. parts of Kansas, Missouri, etc. At least Illannoy
>> is a blue state (Chicago helps), we've got stuff like protection for
>> gays, etc.
>>
>> An anecdote: A good friend recently moved from DC to Denver, he drove
>> through Kansas and had to call me several times as he traversed the
>> state, excitedly telling me about all the stuff that was "Christian -
>> themed" and redneck - ish. He'd say, "God, there are even Christian -
>> themed MOTELS in this place...!!! There are bible verses on the truck
>> stop menus...!!! A waitress asked me what CHURCH I went to...!!!
>> There are anti - abortion messages on the SUGAR PACKETS...!!!". I
>> said, "Hey, settle down, you're just passing through, lol...". He is
>> an East Coast urban guy, *** and Jewish and very well - travelled/
>> educated. But he'd never seen anything like Kansas - and he'd lived
>> in both St. Louis and Virginia (Alexandria, suburban DC) for periods
>> of years. Maybe what got him was that the conservative fundamentalist
>> culture that he encountered was *all* that was there in Kansas...
>
> Well, when the tornados and dustbowl wipe everything out, it naturally
> drives the intelligent, educated population to relocate to better areas,
> leaving a concentration of the ignorant and superstitious.
>
>>
>> As for myself, the only time I really felt scared in my life was off
>> the interstate in rural Georgia to fill up my car whilst passing
>> through. They did NOT like Yankee hippies (I had long hair) in
>> 1974...
>
> On one cross country trip, I specifically planed my fuel fill ups and
> routes to eliminate any stops on my way through Alabama. I went through
> at 4am, never leaving the major highways, and this was in 2004, I don't
> have long hair and I drive a crew cab dually pickup too.


Was this your attempt to be stealthy? You sound as though you'd fit right
in!


Happy to be in Huntsville, Alabama. We have a 15 minute commute, live in a
very nice area where the cost of living is reasonable, have great weather,
aside from the occasional cold snap, and have great friends. Ok, there is
the fact that it's a red state but I'm working on changing that!


helen